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Author Tucker, Joshua, author

Title Gentleman troubadours and Andean pop stars : huayno music, media work, and ethnic imaginaries in urban Peru / Joshua Tucker
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Contents Introduction : cities, sounds, and circulation in twenty-first century Peru -- The distributed society -- The Andean music scene -- Bohemians, poets, and troubadours -- The commercial huayno business -- Finding the huayno people -- Epilogue : folkloric frames and mass culture
Summary Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, Joshua Tucker tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Tucker focuses on the music
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Popular music -- Social aspects -- Peru
Huaynos -- Peru -- Ayacucho -- History and criticism
Huaynos -- Peru -- Lima -- History and criticism
Radio and music -- Peru
Sound recording industry -- Social aspects -- Peru
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
Huaynos
Popular music -- Social aspects
Radio and music
Sound recording industry -- Social aspects
Musikwirtschaft
Musiksoziologie
Huaynos
Peru
Peru -- Ayacucho
Peru -- Lima
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226923970
0226923975
0226923975
9781299401013
1299401015